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How to Make Scrambled Eggs

John MacDowall October 14, 2016 March 30, 2017RECIPES easy, eggs, how to, recipe, scrambled eggs 0

Need a little help with your scrambled eggs? Are you completely lost in the kitchen? Let me help. It’s not that hard to make some really good scrambled eggs.

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How to Peel Garlic

John MacDowall January 1, 2015 October 3, 2016Uncategorized fastest, food, garlic, how to, peeling, quick, tips 0

My first YouTube video.  Shot with the video setting on my digital camera.  I used my Hero3 for the B-roll insert of the inside of the bowl.  Only took a couple of hours to find some video editing software that would let me do a second camera insert.  The next…

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Pickled Peppers or How to Can at Home

John MacDowall August 1, 2014 October 3, 2016VINEGAR canning, homemade, how to, peppers, pickling, preservation, vegetables, vinegar 0
Pickled Peppers

I wanted to make Pico de Gallo, but all my tomatoes rotted on the vines. So, I decided to pickle the pepper crop instead.  Sort through your peppers.  Use only the best, most beautiful peppers.  Peppers that have mold spots, rots, cracks, and brown areas are just going to get…

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How to Dry Herbs Quickly in the Microwave

John MacDowall July 25, 2014 October 3, 2016BACKPACKING, DRYING drying, easy, fast, herbs, how to, preservation, quick, spices 0
How to Quick Dry Herbs

To dry your freshly harvested herbs from your garden, don’t turn on the oven or invest in an expensive food dehydrator – use your microwave! Drying takes just a couple of minutes, if you’re careful. I found this method when I was at my parent’s farm house where there’s no…

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Fermenting Wild Raspberries

John MacDowall July 15, 2014 January 20, 2022VINEGAR fermenting, how to, vinegar, yeast 6
Wild Raspberries

The wild raspberries are ripe!  We found them first at Northwest Branch Stream Valley Park and then in the woods, across the street from my daughter’s house in Sandy Spring!  I couldn’t resist.  I do not like picking berries in the fields — too many relapses of childhood memories growing up working…

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